Your approval gives others the confidence to serve, to learn, to try.
But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.
It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.
[B]y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.
To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.
Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
I'd rather live dangerously for Jesus than exist safely for people's approval.
As I get older I see that running has changed for me. What used to be about burning calories is now more about burning up what is false. Lies I used to tell myself about who I was and what I could do, friendships that cannot withstand hills or miles, the approval I no longer need to seek, and solidarity that cannot bear silence. I run to burn up what I don't need and ignite what I do.
With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
Deep down in the Christian's life, always and all the time, there is to be a "no" to every demand that the flesh may make for recognition, and every demand that the flesh may make for approval, and every demand that the flesh may make for vindication. Always the Christian must bear about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.
It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.
If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.
I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.